Quote Originally Posted by Bham1982 View Post
No, it's the definition of a non-urban city. Novi has tons of parking lots but is unquestionably successful. River Rouge has far fewer but is clearly less successful.

The issue is that RO is taxing these restaurants to kill their businesses. They're paying [[very high, and rising) RO taxes to subsidize the construction of buildings which are destroying their livelihood.

If RO were truly successful, they wouldn't need massive subsidies to attract private sector development, and they wouldn't have to tax businesses to oblivion to support the scheme.

This region is basically addicted to RE ponzi schemes, whereby municipalities raise taxes on existing homeowners and businesses to subside development projects that otherwise don't pencil out. Then everyone is shocked when said development project underperforms. We've been doing this for 50 years now. Detroit is the king of this nonsense, but suburbs do it too, even the successful ones.
Just asking. What kind of higher than normal tax is Royal Oak levying to subsidize new construction? What kind of subsidy is Royal Oak handing out to these projects?